Images: Space Shuttle Endeavour

Space Shuttle Endeavour is ferried by NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft over the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Sept. 19, 2012, as it departs for California. NASA pilots Jeff Moultrie and Bill Rieke are at the controls of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Photo taken by NASA photographer Robert Markowitz in the backseat of a NASA T-38 chase plane with NASA pilot Greg C. Johnson at the controls. (Photo credit: NASA, Robert Markowitz)